Explanation:
Artistic production in the long 17th century in the Dutch Republic radically reenvisioned the forms of visual culture and its consumption. In the wake of the Dutch Revolt of 1579 that severed the formerly conjoined Low Countries into the largely Catholic regions of Flanders, controlled by the Spanish Habsburgs, and the predominately Protestant Dutch Republic, which fought for the political independence that it officially achieved in 1648, Dutch art developed a distinctive, if not revolutionary, character.
The Protestant Reformation was a religious reform movement that took place in Europe, in the 1500s.
It lead to the creation of a branch of Christianity called Protestantism
Reformation Protestant leaders supported Renaissance artists
The effect of the Reformation on artists during the sixteenth century was that artists turned more to secular subjects, e.g portraiture, and in religious works they focused on the life of Christ and fid not look into the saints whose role as intermediaries for mankind
The Dutch Reformed church coupled with having Dutch nationalism brought about the Golden Age.
Dutch Art too took a whole independent directions, creating an example on secular subjects, depicted not with Catholic grandeur, but looking into ordinary human life and realistic treatments.
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